7 November 2011 to 10 November 2011 |
Conference |
Calculemus! Let us calculate! These are Leibniz’ famous words. He would probably not have imagined that about three centuries later almost anybody would actually rely on computations in his/her everyday life.
Especially since the development of the so-called personal... Read more |
22 September 2011 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Dunja Seselja, Promotor: Erik Weber and Joke Meheus |
19 September 2011 to 21 September 2011 |
Conference |
Causality and causal inference play a central role in the sciences. Explanation is one of the central goals of scientific research. And scientific explanation requires causal knowledge. At least, these are well-known tenets in present-day philosophy of science.
In this... Read more |
10 June 2011 |
Workshop |
Science versus Democracy? is a one-day workshop on the relation(s) between Science and Democracy organized at the Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (http://logica.ugent.be/centrum). Specific topics discussed... Read more |
6 May 2011 |
Lecture |
It is known that the algebra of open subsets of the real line constitutes a sound and complete semantics for intuitionistic propositional logic, IPC. IPC has PSPACE complete set of tautologies. However, if we add quantification over propositions then the resulting logic,... Read more |
6 May 2011 |
Lecture |
Bell's theorem derives empirically testable (in fact, falsifiable) inequalities from seemingly natural assumptions regarding models of EPR correlations. The assumption which is usually rejected is that of Outcome Independence (OI), related to Reichenbach's Common... Read more |
2 May 2011 |
Workshop |
Workshop on Economic models of scientific methodology |